Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1920 — “A NIGHT IN HONOLULU.” [ARTICLE]

“A NIGHT IN HONOLULU.”

“K Night In Honolulu,” a play of life in Hawaii, in three acts and five scenes, is from the pen of Howard McKent Barnes; the scenes, which are laid in this Island Paradise of the Pacific, are said to be the most realistic ever reproduced on the American stage. Native Ha- ' waiian music by the gifted ukelele players and singers and dances by Princess Koia thru-out the play fill

the air with an atmosphere of Hawaii which carries the audience across the Pacific to that beautiful land of sunshine and flowers'. The stage settings in showing the “Gardens of Wisteria” is a scenic and electrical wonder, and is indeed a .beautiful sight *to behold, there in the soft moon light on the beach at Waikiki amid the palms of that romantic shore, as one stands there listing to the pulsing of the surf, and watches the glittering waters of the South Sea as 4he reflection of the moon stealing thru the trees is thrown upon it. The eruption of the volcano and the fire scene are also a sight not to be missed for they are considered the greatest efforts of the producers for the stage in many years, giving a reproduction of the- volcano of Kilauea in eruption, spouting forth its immense sheets of flame and white hot rock, fthe lava rolling down the side of the crater and setting fire to a sugar plantation in the low-lands. The play concerns the episode in the life of a beautiful Hawaiian girl, her lover an Englishman and their child. The Hawaiian girl deserted by her lover, the’ Englishman, {in a spirit of revenge substitutes I the child of- his white wife for that of her own which has died and rears her as a native. She is afterwards known ‘as “Kalama” the. dancing, girl of Hawaii. She is sought after by the white people, flattered and favorfed by them, out when her heart goes out to a white i man and the sentiment is recipro- | cated the old hateful barrier stands in the way; the intermingling of I the race is confronted. How' the I author works out this situation is (most absorbingly told in “A Night lln Honolulu,” which comes to the i Ellis Opera House for a night peri formance on next .Saturday, May Ist. : j .•